Meet Negabask Fatima - Equine Fine Art Portraiture - Black Background - Northwest Horse Photography

These photos means so much to me because this used to be my mare. In the second image, she is giving me "the look." She was bred to be mine, out of my moms old mare and was born when I was 12. She was the first horse I started under saddle. We won champion in ground training classes at the county fair when I was 13 or 14. She had a few years to grow at my moms house, and then I started her under saddle and she taught me the important lesson of not pushing a horse too fast by dumping me on the ground the first time I tried to mount her. I put a good number of hours of ride time into her once I did get her going (after slowing down, of course) and we became really good friends. Lots of arena time and some trail time, but she was never super happy to go on trails. I found her favorite scritch spot (on her rump). I got her to a point where I used to jump up on her bareback with a halter and ride her in from the pasture. Then I decided to go to college and couldn't give her time - so back to my mom she went. My mom leased her out, then sold her, but the woman got pregnant shortly after and gave her back to my mom. My mom kept her a number of years, used her for dressage, let a kid ride her in 4-H. Years passed as they do. My mom held onto her until a couple of years ago, when she gave her to the woman who had been leasing her. Now she is 28 and a testament to the equine memory - even though we have hardly seen each other in the last decade, she still greets me with that expression - ears up, eyes wide, sweet faced. I like to think she remembers me and our years together as fondly as I remember her. She is 7/8 Arabian, 1/8 Saddlebred. Sired by GW Negabask out of Allah's Akasma.⁠⠀